Garland in the corner. He's got it.

Beads stamped.

Power with the right.

And he'll shakes. To the basket and thunders at home. Oh, Mobley throws it down. And Alan blocked the shot at the rim. Welcome to the Chase Town podcast. Part of the Cavs Media family. I'm your host, Justin Rohn. The Chase Town is presented by Fubo, the official streaming partner of the Cavs, watch over 350 channels of live sports and TV, including Fan Dual Sports Network without cable.

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Try for free at FuboTV.com slash calves. The Cleveland Cavaliers were not able to extend their winning streak against the Detroit Pistons,

but have been showing some real positive signs as of late that they are

getting this thing going in the right direction. And joining me today is my co-host, Carter Rodriguez.

Carter, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing well. Thanks for holding down the four big shots to Tony.

Of course, he gets the post-super fun Spurs win pod. And I get this one uh you know are we noticing a trend are we

there's uh there's uh there's data there is data and now the sample size is getting large

i'm getting concerned about your performance this year buddy well i went to the nuggets game

which is my first game of the season,

um, uh, which was really great. Uh, had a bunch of friends in town for New Year. So, uh, again, very much appreciate, uh, holding it down, though. I think I'm starting to pay the price, Justin. As you might have noticed, I'm sipping on water here because my dumb ass is getting sick. Oh, boy. opposed to my much preferred standard Diet Coke.

Well, that's good at least you're not getting that caffeine right before bed i worry about that

with you i don't know what the deal is i don't sleep when i don't have caffeine before bed i don't sleep

when i do have caffeine before bad it's just it's my curse you got to let. That's fair. You know, sometimes you just got to play your game, which is something that the Cavs have been doing a lot more as of late. They are two and one since our last podcast. As I mentioned off the top, they were not able to get a win today against the Detroit Pistons. They were short-handed in this one down Jared Allen as well as Dean Wade.

As we know, Max Drew is still out as well as Larry Nance Jr.

So the Cavs were forced to go small quite a bit against a Pistons team that is probably on the shortlist for teams that you do not want to be small against.

Even without Jalen Duren.

Even without, I was going to say, obviously it was, yeah, go ahead. And you could even argue that the guys they were missing are the kind of guys that don't traditionally punish teams for going small very well outside of Jalen Duren. You know, Tobias Harris, Karris Levert. Those aren't like, oh, man, we got to bulk up against those guys.

Like, that's just not what they do.

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